Speed kills might sound like a tired old cliché, but it does have a grain of truth. This paper carried a story on Monday that most readers would have read and gone: that could have been me. A speeding car knocked down and killed a 55-year-old man on Marine Drive on Sunday morning.

The man was going to the promenade for a jog, when a car came racing out of nowhere and ran over him while he was crossing the road. The driver fled the scene, leaving the victim bleeding on the road. He eventually succumbed to his injuries.